As Congress president during the 1938 party session of Haripura Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose spoke of the imminence of a war between the Great Power blocs of Europe North America and Japan. India an enslaved country he had warned would be dragged into this war. India s resources territory and man-power would be exploited by Britain the imperial power governing India. Britain had similarly exploited India s resources in the First World War of 1914-18. At the end of the First World War Britain had given India no assurance of early constitutional progress to being a self-governing Dominion within the British Empire. Complete sovereign independence or Purna Swaraj for India was at that stage a distant goal which only a younger group of leaders of the freedom movement advocated.